Events

Marty Peters will lead a tour of the Griset Clubhouse, part of the Boys & Girls Club San Dieguito. The Griset Clubhouse is undergoing renovations that are supported in part by our club and its members. Please let Marty know if you'd like to attend.  

https://sandiegochill.org/

The Book Club is reading "Being Huemann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist" by Judy Huemann. It tells the story of her fight to make sure that everyone is accepted and included in society (see description below).  

The Club will meet at Sharon Schendel's house.  Look for email with address as the date approaches.  

A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn’t built for all of us and of one woman’s activism—from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington—Being Heumann recounts Judy Heumann’s lifelong battle to achieve respect, acceptance, and inclusion in society.

Paralyzed from polio at eighteen months, Judy’s struggle for equality began early in life. From fighting to attend grade school after being described as a “fire hazard” to later winning a lawsuit against the New York City school system for denying her a teacher’s license because of her paralysis, Judy’s actions set a precedent that fundamentally improved rights for disabled people.

As a young woman, Judy rolled her wheelchair through the doors of the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in San Francisco as a leader of the Section 504 Sit-In, the longest takeover of a governmental building in US history. Working with a community of over 150 disabled activists and allies, Judy successfully pressured the Carter administration to implement protections for disabled peoples’ rights, sparking a national movement and leading to the creation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Candid, intimate, and irreverent, Judy Heumann’s memoir about resistance to exclusion invites readers to imagine and make real a world in which we all belong.

 lljgolf.com

The Alliance for African Assistance (AAA) is one of the top resttlement agencies in the United States and recently helped resettle over 1,300 Afghans and 300 Ukrainians in the United States. They also serve refugees overseas through the building of hospitals and other medical resource centers, as well as medical education facilities.

Funds raised at the World Refugee Day Annual Celebration breakfast will support the Child Scholarship Program, an international scholarship program established in 2002 that partners with children and families in Uganda. The breakfast will feature as keynote speaker Masooma Said, who escaped Afghanistan after U.S. forces pulled out. She is now a member of the AAA staff.  

Sending Sharon out and welcoming Matt in!  Location TBA.

The San Diego Blood Bank (SDBB) Bloodmobile returns to the Del Mar Civic Center.  Sign up to donate at an upcoming meeting, or online in the coming weeks.

www.themorninghero.com/speaker